Before you look down your nose at someone it's always good to look in the mirror.

Exactly

I think we were talking about this in passing yesterday....

Yep! We were in a way weren't we :-)

Good point!

Thanks! In the twelve step class I teach it covers all hurts, habits, and hang ups. I think someone who can't go a day without gossiping about someone is worse than an addict in some ways they are destroying multiple lives not just their own.

My buddies wife is a bit of a gossiper, I called her a yenta the other day. Her being french didnt know what it was, I told her, to which she told me where to go abruptly. But in good fun., but in the small town I live it can split the town, always stories, who's schtupin who, Yadda yadda.

There is always that one person in every town who knows who/what everyone is doing, and how long they have been doing it for. Their closet is normally so full of skeletons that the door will barely shut. I think the reason those people gossip is so they feel better about their own wrong doings. I knew a lady once who had the scoop on everyone in town and they were all horrible people to hear her tell it, she got busted skimming money from the church bank account, suddenly she didn't like gossip anymore.

I know this is off-point but...

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Sad but true! Addictions rule many lives.

That is scary! I work at a thrift shop and I swear we have people tht are addicted to buying books, clothing, certain toys, honestly about anything you can think of.

I woder what I would do if I started dating a chic, go to her house for the first time, and walk into a shrine of some sort like that. Ha ha ha, future co-habitation may be an issue.